Answers! I need answers
As we celebrate our 52nd
independence day, I am curled up dreaming on my bed, sulking actually! It’s raining
out here, really cold! But bearable at least as I am indoors and thankfully do
not intend to go out, so here I ‘am sulking and wondering when I’d ever get
answers to these questions that keep reoccurring in my head. I have tried to
shake them off all day, to no avail.
So now, yours truly is
compelled to write these questions that bother me, on a day am supposed to be
proudly dressed in a green dress complete with white stilettos, I am moved by
an intensity that burns, a vehemence that I can taste on my lips and a deep
regret that makes me pace my room to and fro, wondering if there are like minds
tortured by the need for answers like me.
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Can Nigeria claim to be truly integrated
as a nation? Recent security challenges and terrorism has become the order of
the day and it is disguised as activism. It has become clear that the high and
mighty in society aid this ugly trend with impunity.
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We were a nation that survived solely on
Agriculture ans so I ask, how did we suddenly walk into the farce of depending only on
petroleum? Where are the groundnut pyramids, the cocoa plantations and the
rubber farmers?
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Where are the visionaries? Don't they exist
in Nigeria? Tenure elongation has
become an accepted norm, most administrations turn despotic, in a bid to secure
more time to loot public funds, it is disgusting to see religious leaders
become their allies despite their open fraudulence.
·
What is the
hope for the Nigerian youth dreams, aspiration and vision! Where is our voice
in all of this-has it ever mattered?
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And the
Nigerian police? They are a farce! We all
in open agreement believe they ought to be stuck out. Re-branding is a waste of
a word on them! The impunity with which they throw caution to the winds while
demanding for twenty Naira notes is an eye sore to put it mildly.
Face
book didn't do its magic for me today; yours truly has a friend who seems to
shares the same need for answers, only he had dared to address us all in his
literary best! With his kind permission, I quote;
‘...The Nigerian Government is the best in
the world. Who is Obama where Jonathan stands? With all his good luck as well?
Our able Politicians have put policies in place to ensure the rights of every
Nigerian are upheld. Kidnapping? No kidnapping. With the police we have any
oyibo can walk the streets of warri without fear. Bribes have been quashed. Nobody
touches it anymore. Yes that is Nigeria for you.Em..., barman abi
is it barmen. Give me more of that vodka!’
Well Vodka no be my size, so I have ordered a
pint of Guinness! Abi? My people I deserve to smile today o, weather the devil
like am or not! As Santosh Kalwar says,
“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today
and I will smile tomorrow.
Simply because life is too short to cry for
anything”
Yours in gist
Shy
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